It's not bad, Tethers - not as good as the Shardlakes. It scared me in places, which is quite unusual - just in the sense that it easily COULD have been true. I think it's a bit overlong and could have done with some tighter editing - but I think that about nearly everything anyway!

Great ideas. Thanks! I think I have several of those unread on my shelves. Isn't that Sansom the anti- Scotland/SNP twerp? I read another Hans Fallada for A level decades ago. Good to see him translated nowadays. I think my son has Fatherland. Ta again .